How to Prepare Your Team for a New Hire Before Day One
Maple trees do not hold an all-hands about it. No slide deck. No “Autumn Transformation Roadmap.” No Slack message that says “quick heads up, we’re about to turn orange.” The days get shorter, the tree reads the signal, and the whole canopy changes. Here is the detail most of us miss. The tree started prepping…
Read MoreHow Long You Really Have to Make the Hire
Who’s Taking You to Prom? Picture the week before prom. Someone you’ve had your eye on says, “Sure, I’d love to hear more.” Wonderful news. So you take your time and plan the ask. Maybe a poster. Maybe a drone. Maybe a choreographed flash mob. Meanwhile, somebody else walks up with a carnation and says,…
Read MoreMeasure Twice, Hire Once: How to Vet Construction Hires
A framer with a DUI from six years ago. A foreman whose last job ended after a theft accusation nobody ever proved. A crew lead who left his last company two weeks after starting with no explanation given. Every one of those people might be exactly who you need to hire this month. Every one…
Read MoreHow Your Legal Hiring Strategy Is Taking Burnout to Court
Ask a mid-level associate how often they feel burned out these days, and the honest answer is close to a coin flip. Bloomberg Law’s most recent Attorney Workload and Hours Survey found that mid- and senior-level associates reported feeling burned out 51 percent of the time in 2024, the worst of any group in the…
Read MoreNobody’s Hiring Entry-Level. Someone Still Has to Become the CEO.
For a decade, every manufacturing conference has opened with the same slide: not enough welders, not enough electricians, an aging skilled trades workforce with nobody coming up behind them. By 2030, an estimated 2.1 million skilled trades positions could go unfilled, according to JLL, with potential economic losses reaching 1 trillion dollars a year. Everyone nods. Everyone agrees it is a…
Read MoreThe Integrator’s Title Never Changes. Here’s What Should.
Three years ago, she had a business card that said Director of Operations. Today, her team has tripled, revenue has doubled, and she signs off on decisions the CEO used to make alone. Her business card still says Director of Operations. Nobody did that on purpose. Nobody sat down and decided to underpay her attention. There was just never a natural…
Read MoreYou’re Coaching Everyone to Dribble. Nobody’s Coaching Anyone to Win
A department books an off-site. Fifty thousand dollars, an outside facilitator, a really good breakfast spread. Everyone comes home with a notebook and a slightly firmer handshake. Three months later, the notebook’s in a drawer. Nothing has changed. Multiply that scene by however many departments run one of these a year, and the math gets uncomfortable fast. Mike Kuenzi, Titus…
Read MoreBack to School: The Supply List Your Hiring Process Needs This Fall
Somewhere this week, a kid is standing in a store aisle holding a list their teacher handed out in June: two dozen pencils, a specific brand of glue stick, a folder in exactly the right color. Nobody shows up to the first day of school improvising. Most hiring teams show up to the fall hiring…
Read MoreEveryone Wants to Hire A-Players. Almost Nobody Can Spot One.
Alex Hormozi has built and sold several companies and now co-founded Acquisition.com, a portfolio of businesses doing nine figures a year. So when he talks about hiring, founders tend to listen. On The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett, Hormozi made a point that sounds simple: when you find truly great talent, the fee to get…
Read MoreWhy Hiring a Unicorn Didn’t Come With a Fairytale Ending
A client asks us for a unicorn. We go looking. We come back with three finalists who might as well be a racehorse, a narwhal, and a beaver. There’s always a flicker of disappointment. They wanted magic. We brought livestock and a marine mammal. Here’s what nobody says out loud when writing the brief: the unicorn was never coming. Nobody’s was. And yet the search…
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